Dynamics of technology emergence in innovation networks.

ABSTRACT: To create the next innovative product, participants in science need to understand which existing technologies can be combined, what new science must be discovered, and what new technologies must be invented. Knowledge of these often arrives by means of expert consensus or popularity metrics, masking key information on how intellectual efforts accumulate into technological progress. To address this shortcoming, we first present a method to establish a mathematical link between technological evolution and complex networks: a path of events that narrates innovation bottlenecks. Next, we quantify the position and proximity of documents to these innovation paths. The result is an innovation network that more exhaustively captures deterministic knowledge flows with respect to a marketed innovati

SUBMITTER: Ho M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10791630 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature